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Obscured by all the hullabaloo over the Congressional speaking invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is the more fundamental mystery of the Obama Administration’s Iranian strategy. Laying aside the increasingly evident incompetence of the political hacks, wordsmiths and other amateurs the President has surrounded himself as foreign policy advisers,…

Left: President Obama receives the Nobel Peace Prize in 2009. (Official White House Photo) As part of the Obama administration’s unprecedented opposition to Israel’s Prime Minister’s address to Congress on March 3rd, the White House claimed his speech would negatively impact a deal with Tehran. But on Friday, February 28th,......

The 20th century was undoubtedly the bloodiest and most violent in the history of the world. Continual wardfare, regional or worldwide, covering the entire period from 1914 to 1991, including three world wars (the so-called Cold War being the third) and the first use of nuclear weapons. Massacres, genocides, and......

The characterization of Islamist jihadist attacks as “spontaneous” or committed by “self-radicalized Lone Wolves” seems inaccurate and misleading. All attackers we have seen in recent years were radicalized in mosques or Muslim schools they attended, online, in chatrooms and by social media they share with others. While sometimes only......

Drones in the U.S. National Airspace System – Major Stephen Maddox & Captain David Stuckenberg — in 2014 an American Airlines Group regional jet in Florida nearly collided with a drone at 2,300 feet. This type of UAS is supposed to remain within 400 feet of the surface. A collision......

Left: Three pilots have reported unmanned drones flying too close to their jetliners as they approached Kennedy Airport this week, NBC 4 New York has learned. Brynn Gingras reports (Thursday, Nov 20, 2014) Department of Defense disclaimer: “The opinions and views expressed in this paper are those of the authors......

Left: A Google Earth view of a Syrian scientific facility in Jamraya, near Damascus, before it was allegedly struck by Israeli warplanes in late January 2015 (photo credit: image capture from Google Earth) Syria has a long history of deception and lying to the international community on matters concerning its......

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